IMPORTANT: You need Text-To-Speech engine and voices installed on your device
to use this app. If you don't have it yet, pickup from Play Store Acapela, Ivona
or SVOX TTS package. You may use more than one if you want.

Download
signed APK file directly from this server:Note: if you want to download an APK file from our server, you need to
change Android System Settings - Security - turn on the "Unknown sources"
option, to allow installation of apps from sources other than Google Play
app store. On Andoid 9 the way to enable this is even more complicated,
read:
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/sideload-android-3679224/

Features:

* Click "Share", "Send by Email" button or menu item in any app to send text
you read to @Voice Aloud Reader for aloud reading over speakers or headset.
* If "Share" is not available, copy text in other apps and paste it into @Voice
for aloud reading.
* Open text, PDF, DOC, EPUB/MOBI/FB2 or HTML files from Android file system for reading aloud.
* Save articles opened in @Voice to files for later listening. Construct
listening lists of many articles for uninterrupted listening one after the
other. Order the list as needed, e.g. more important articles first.
* Record spoken articles to sound files - WAV
(uncompressed) or OGG (compressed) formats supported.
* Easily add saved Pocket articles to @Voice reading list - in Read List screen,
press Menu - Add articles from Pocket.
* Easily control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
* Pause/resume speech as needed with wired or Bluetooth headset buttons, plus
click Next/Previous buttons to jump by sentence, long-click to switch to the
next/previous article on a list.
* Can automatically recognize the language of an article and use appropriate TTS
voice, if available, or set your preferred voices manually with "Select
language" menu item.
* Options for additional pause between paragraph, start talking as soon as a new
article is loaded or wait for a button press, start/stop talking when wired
headset plug is inserted/removed.
* Optional sleep timer to stop speech after a given timeout.

ABOUT PERMISSIONS:

The full Internet access is needed because the “Share” function from web
browsers and any news reading apps I tried, sends us only the URL address
(http://something...). They do not send the full text of articles, so @Voice has
to download the article from the Internet to be able to read it aloud or save
for later reading. Only by using Copy text function in one app, and pasting it
in @Voice, or by saving the full text in one app to storage and opening a file
in @Voice, you could avoid Internet connection, but this is not very convenient.

PLEASE send me your suggestions for improvements and bug reports welcome - send them to the email
address listed on "Contact" page. Thanks and have fun! And a BIG THANK YOU! to Ilia Prokator for
sending me the idea for this app.

Greg at Hyperionics

@Voice Change Log:

Ver. 16.8.8b, May 23, 2019

* Improvements for text extraction from quora.com and other sites
* New option under Speech settings - Pauses tab, to pause after each article for
specified time or indefinitely
* New option to hide disabled items on Edit speech menu.
* Premium license only: speech replacements under Edit speech now can have tags,
one may enable/disable items by tags.

Ver. 16.8, May 13, 2019

* Better text filtering for CNN and some other sites
* Android Q Beta 3 compatible
* Highlight spoken words option moved to Speech settings - START tab, and is now
turned off by default. It affects negatively performance and battery, don't turn
on unless necessary
* Important stability improvements

Ver. 16.7.8, May 4, 2019

Ver. 16.7, Apr. 19, 2019

*Custom content filters may be now easily installed from email attachments,
local files or web links
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.6, Apr. 5, 2019

* New option under Edit Speech screen to insert new replacement at the
current position
* Stability and performance improvements, Android Q Beta 2 compatible.

Ver. 16.5, March 16, 2019

* First release compatible with Android Q beta
* The "Repeat" button at the bottom, if enabled, has now an extra option to stop
reading at the end of current article (do not continue to the next article on
the reading list)
* Trying to fix TalkBack saying repeatedly "Service @Voice" on some phones. If
you experienced this problem before, please tell me if this update fixes it for
you.
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.4, March 16, 2019

* Long-press a word, then press Play button - app starts reading from that
word, not start of the sentence.
* For TTS engines that can highlight the word read aloud (currently only Google
TTS under Android 8 or higher), pause reading - resume, reads from the last read
word, not start of the sentence.
* Fix for some FB2 files not opening, and TOC/Links not working in some
MOBI/AZW3 ebooks
* Security improvements for PDF files handling

Ver. 16.3, Feb. 23, 2019

* Improved content filtering for some web sites
* Better abbreviation handling
* The app now asks for Storage access only when the user tries to open a file
from outside of @Voice private directory, not on app startup
* Stability and performance improvements

Ver. 16.2, Feb. 14, 2019

* Better help in installing new Text-to-speech engines and voices.

Ver. 16.1, Feb. 4, 2019

* New bookmarking - arbitrary selection may be bookmarked now. Bookmarks can
be exported to a text file with the complete text of the bookmarked range, and
imported back if needed.
* New options in Speech settings: START tab - choose to start reading from top
of screen, if last read aloud position is behind, and HEADSET tab - ignore
Next/Previous (or FF/Rewind) buttons from headset when reading is paused. Should
help for problems with certain car stereos.
* Faster loading of ebook chapters

Ver. 15.9, Jan. 10, 2019

* Restored asking for Storage read/write permission at app start, if it was
not granted yet. Previously asked when using Open file function, but some users
would send files to @Voice from other apps without every using Open button, and
were getting cryptic error message only.

Ver. 15.8, Dec. 1, 2018

* @Voice has now a "Reload" button on article pages that did not download.
* Reload is also found on "Reload or clear" menu (circular arrows) for any HTML
article
* If error articles were added to a reading list, you may now use "Reload error
articles" on the menu to try to reload them.
* Added "Reload all articles" to the reading list menu, to reload all HTML
articles. If only some need reloading, prepare first a smaller reading list with
them, then use this function.

Ver. 15.7, Nov. 15, 2018

* Modified handling of very long web pages and HTML files, trying to save
memory and prevent some out-of-memory crashes.
* Finally figured out what caused crashes on OnePlus One phone with Android
6.0.1, and a few other devices - Google's new App Bundle format for uploading
apps to Google Play. Reverting to the old APKs for now, which works fine.

Ver. 15.6

* Fix: text search was not working correctly for long texts or ebooks
* Avoid excessive showing of voice selector screen
* Other fixes and performance improvements

Ver. 15.5

* Divided extra-busy "Speech settings" screen into 4 tabs
* New options on Pauses tab of Speech settings - pause for the same duration as
it took to read aloud a sentence or paragraph, or percentage of it.
* Improved sorting of articles on reading lists and file names - numbers in
names are taken into account correctly, e.g. "Article2" will be now before
"Article11", not after it.
* Repeat button at bottom is hidden by default, enable it under Screen settings
* Bug fixes

Ver. 15.3

* Fix @Voice Folder Location function - when copying of data to new location was
requested, nothing was copied...
* Added "Change voice or language" function also to the Settings menu - many
users could not find it on the expanded bottom control panel.

Ver. 15.2, Aug. 27, 2018

* Added instant sentence translation option on single or double-tap, via
Google Translate app. Enable if needed under Settings menu. Works best in split
screen mode on Android 7 and higher.
* If absolutely necessary, you may long-press the round (>) button next to
speech speed slider to increase the upper speed limit the slider allows. What a
TTS engine will do with high-speed request is beyond my control.
* Better single letter abbreviation detection for Russian language.

Ver. 15.1, Aug. 12, 2018

* More messages shown with possible solutions, when correct TTS voice is
missing or has no voice data installed
* Fixed some file association to open from file browsers files of type .fb2,
.fb2.zip, .azw3 etc.

Ver. 15.0, Aug. 5, 2018

* Edit speech items can now be individually activated or deactivated with
check-boxes on the list. There are also options to activate/deactivate all on
the menu there, and delete all inactive if necessary.
* Fix for "end of part" info for ebooks and other long files to have the same
text background and color as the rest of the pages.
* Improved import from MOBI/AZW ebook formats
* Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Ver. 14.3

* Long press the X button at the bottom of reading list screen to delete an
article permanently at once. It will be also removed from all reading lists that
way.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 14.2, May 22, 2018

* Added @Voice Network Library Plugin to download books from online book
catalogs published in OPDS format.
* When running under TalkBack, full screen ads are no longer shown to avoid user
confusion.

Version 14.1, May 8, 2018

* Fix - working around a bug in newest Android WebView control, hanging or
crashing the app under TalkBack.

Version 14.0, April 14, 2018

* Added option to show extra buttons in the top toolbar, if there is space -
Settings, Paste and Bookmarks menu. Select what to show under Settings
* Copying text from @Voice app will not automatically read it aloud, if option
to read aloud copied text is turned on
* Important bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 13.3, April 6, 2018

* Moved Setup function from the menu to gear icon in top toolbar for easier
access
* Added option to reset "Open by default" setting to Setup screen, and warning
user if a file of some type is opened by default, with option to reset. The
warning may be turned off.
* Other important bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 13.2, April 1, 2018

* Much better handling of malformed ebooks, particularly in MOBI format, and
very long HTML texts often downloaded from fun fiction sites
* Fixes to history and back-forward navigation (horizontal arrows when you open
the main menu)
* Many other important bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 13.1, March 16, 2018

* Reading time left is now shown at the bottom status line when you start
reading aloud. It's updated after each sentence is finished.
* Info panel available from "i" in circle button on the menu also contains
reading time estimates.
* You can pull down the info panel by swiping down from the top toolbar of
@Voice app, and you may also expand the bottom control panel by swiping up from
the bottom row of buttons.
* Added Livio Portuguese dictionary support
* Other important bug fixes

Version 13.0.2, March 8, 2018

* Added option to not turn off "play on shake" feature if too much shaking
detected
* Fix: Default list was cleared after Share - Add to list, if @Voice was not
started before
* Fix: speech sometimes auto-started even if "Start talking at once" option was
off
* Fix: Plain text indented with spaces did not show correctly.
* Fix: Superscripts in ebook files found at end of sentence formed part of the
next sentence, causing trouble with speech replacements.

Version 12.09, Feb. 27, 2018

Made show images for web articles the default and no longer experimental

Fix: if article added with file name same as read before and deleted,
the progress would be wrong

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.08, Feb. 19, 2018

Highlighting of spoken words is now possible under Android 8 and higher,
with some Googe TTS voices. Other TTS vendors may implement the functions
needed for this in future. May be turned off under "Screen and sleep timer
settings"

Updated translations

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.07, Feb. 11, 2018

Added text hyphenation option, it's turned on by default. Can be turned
off or on under "Page look" (T+/- button on top), TEXT tab.

Fixed crash when trying to download Bookshare ebook

Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 12.06, Feb. 4, 2018

Fix for some FB2 files still not opening correctly.

Hiding @Voice notification until absolutely necessary

Option to avoid auto-start of speech with some Bluetooth speakers - see
Speech settings screen, "Ignore the first Play command..." option

Version 11.04.08, Oct. 25, 2017

Splitting very long HTML files (about 0.5 MB) into smaller pieces for
faster loading and to avoid out of memory errors

Fix reading progress not updated to 100% after finished listening to an
article from a reading list

Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 11.04, Oct. 1, 2017

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Updated translations

Version 11.03.02, Sept. 24, 2017

New - option to auto-add to list an article, if web address is copied
(Settings - Share icons, text and reading list). E.g. in Chrome, long-press
a link, then choose "Copy link address" to auto-add that page to reading
list.

Improvement - if long text opened and pressing top-left round button opens
text part selection, press top-left again to open the current reading list
at once (one click less to reach reading list screen)

Fix - No Ads license was not working for a few users.

Version 11.02.03, Sept. 19, 2017

In long multi-part document (TXT, DOC, PDF...) to jump directly to part
N, press top-left logo and type part number.

Bottom progress bar and message now show both total progress in
book/long doc, and current chapter/part progress. The notification shows now
only total progress.

Fix for speech not starting when using Share - Start talking in
background option

Fix for sharing articles from Investing.com app

Added warning about discontinue of Dropbox sync soon, due to changes
that Dropbox company introduces in their SDK.

Version 10.10.9 released March. 16, 2017

Fix: when speech stopped with sleep timer function, reading position
was lost.

Fix: when stopped with sleep timer and screen off, would sometimes
resume speech after a few seconds.

Fix: with "Start talking at once" option selected, when starting a
new article or chapter, would repeat the first sentence twice, then
highlight out of sync with speech.

Version 10.10.4 released March. 10, 2017

Selecting ebook chapter from TOC sets the first sentence of the new
chapter as speech start

Fixed issue with incorrect layouts and notification on systems with
left-to-right language

Updated translations

Version 10.10.3 released March. 8, 2017

Sort options added to the Reading List screen, to sort
alphabetically, by file size or date, ascending or descending.

New file "Open" screen - flat list of ebook and article files in
known folders. Can switch to the old Browse by folders screen from the
menu.

Code changes to avoid occasional position loss

New option on Page look for horizontal scrolling to ignore
horizontal swipes (if e.g. you like to follow text with your finger
while reading)

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 9.9.8 released Feb. 14, 2017

Better handling of audio and video tags in epub files

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 9.9.7 released Feb. 5, 2017

The list of reading lists is now sorted alphabetically,
instead of being in random order (several users asked for this change)

Version 9.9.4 released Jan. 29, 2017

Fix crash when reading a new FB2 file for the first time

Touching right edge during vertical scrolling won't randomly jump to a
different place anymore

Will show a hint on how to start reading from any place in the text,
when scrolling vertically (can be turned off)

Many other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 9.9.3 released Jan. 24, 2017

Voice Selector list is sorted now by country, quality, name

In German texts numbers followed by a dot don't end sentence now.

Many important bug fixes and performance

Version 9.9.1 released Jan. 18, 2017

Fix for some Share ops with Google Play app link showing app
description instead of text

Updated translations

Many other bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 9.8.4 released Jan. 12, 2017

Sync with Google Drive is now done from a separate plugin app,
so the main @Voice app does not require identity and contacts
permissions anymore.

Flip pages with volume keys, when reading from screen, speech
off

Fix for PDF containing randomly inserted 0-width spaces

Performance improvements and bug fixes

Version 9.7.3 released Dec. 20, 2016

Android 6 and up: trying to resume speech, if interrupted by
TalkBack or other voice announcement.

Tweaks in PDF text extraction code to better connect text into
paragraphs. Need input on how well/bad it works, and if bad - PDF files
sent to me for debugging...

Fix - would not read aloud from epub files or other HTML sources if
the source file did not have <body> tag.

Version 9.6.8 released Dec. 15, 2016

Fix - on small screens the menu button on top right could be
inaccessible

Fix - HTML tags appearing in the notification title for ebooks

Version 9.6.7 released Dec. 12, 2016

Bug fix in opening some EPUB files.

Version 9.6.6 released Dec. 10, 2016

Skipping reading aloud content marked as "non-linear" in ebooks

Fixed a few rare bugs reported since v.9.6.5 release.

Version 9.6.5 released Dec. 7, 2016

Implemented back/forward navigation (press menu button to find arrow
keys). Note, they will start working if you navigate from the current
article or chapter elsewhere, e.g. to the next article/chapter, jump to
read a footnote etc.

Better handling of EPUB3 ebooks with one huge internal HTML file,
which previously could crash the app or make it load text for a very
long time.

Accessibility improvements for visually impaired users.

Fix a problem with sharing articles to @Voice from New York Times
web site or app.

Many internal changes to make things run smoother and faster, use
less memory.

Many bug fixes.

Version 9.5.2 released Nov. 17, 2016

Updated to display correctly the table of content (TOC) for EPUB 3 files

Several small bug fixes

Version 9.5.0 released Nov. 10, 2016

Support for Bookshare.org - find any book in their catalog, then "Share"
the book page to @Voice, and it will offer to download it.

Google Drive support will now download any article file we can
read from @Voice folder on Google drive.

Sorting our the characters in right-to-left scripts (Hebrew, Arabic)
into correct order, when decoding PDF files. Need input on how this works.

Trying to prevent occasional loss of the read place and bookmarks

Many important bug fixes and performance improvements.

10/21/2016 v.9.3.8* New desktop Chrome browser extension to add articles
to @Voice with one click from your laptop or desktop computer.
Install it in Chrome browser by search in Chrome Web Store for
"@Voice Add to List".
* After installing the extension and adding some articles with
it, go to any Reading List, press menu - "Google Drive sync".
* Fix to Pocket sync issues with large number of articles
* Bug fixes and performance improvement.

9/28/2016: v9.2.8* Improvements to PDF text import, e.g. more ligatures
decoded, some invalid UTF codes rejected
* Another fix for importing text from articles shared from
Flipboard
* Bug fixes
9/24/2016: v9.2.7* Smaller and less frequent ads in text
* The never ending job of improving text extraction from web
pages continues...
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
9/18/2016: v.9.2.2* Fixing issue with importing text from new versions of
Flipboard
* Several other web site and app text extraction fixes
* Trying new kind of ads
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
9/8/2016: v.9.1.5* Added "Share to Facebook" feature
* Enhancements and fixes to the Search function
* Fixing issue of advanced Pocket sync downloading deleted
articles
* Enabling "fast Pocket sync" option no matter if I think it
will work on a device or not...
* Updated translations
* Several important bug fixes and performance improvements
8/23/2016: v.9.0.10* Search function now works for entire ebooks or long
text files
* Faster loading of saved articles when WiFi is not available
* Read list management: rename articles, move to other lists
* Pocket sync now shows error message, if something goes wrong
* Fix: load full page text was not working for some pages
* Small fixes in text extraction from web articles. Email us if
you see any pages that extract incorrectly
* Several other bug fixes

8/5/2016: v.8.9.6* Updated translations
* Accessibility improvements when using the app with TalkBack
* Play gong sound when recording and article to a sound file,
and recording is finished.

7/28/2016: v8.9.4* Fix: sound recording on some devices was not working
* Fix Pocket sync - when auto-archiving more than 1 finished
articles it would crash
* Pocket sync - the "Quick" method is now disabled on devices
where it won't work.
* Small change in Reading List handling - when article is 75% or
more finished, and you press a button to load the next article,
it's marked as 100% finished, which will make auto-archiving
easier.
7/23/2016: v8.9.2
* Alt loading of web pages that refuse to load without
JavaScript
* Some buttons larger and speech sliders hidden, when TalkBack
is used.
* More fixes to import in fb2 import
* Record sound files with continue to next article/chapter:
option to combine chapters into one sound file.
* Zoom out text with "pinch" gesture, and you may scroll without
worry that upon reading the next sentence the view will scroll
back.
* Fix Pocket auto-archiving of finished articles
7/10/2016: v8.8.7* Faster startup and article loading
* More fixes for extracting text from some web pages
* Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7/2/2016: v8.8.4* Added Exit function to the menu, the back button just
goes back to previously used app. Exit will completely stop the
app and its service.
* Fixed: some FB2 files were not read correctly
* Fixed: RTF files incorrectly saved with .doc extension were
not read correctly
* Ongoing improvements to extracting relevant text from web
articles
* Other important bug fixes and performance improvements
6/2/2016: v8.7.3* Fix for extracting text from gazeta.pl Polish news
site
* Updated Traditional Chinese translations

5/31/2016: v8.7.2* Restored ability to use network voices, this time a
check-box on the voice selector screen, with a warning.
* Resume speech on volume up was starting @Voice reading also
when it was not desired, e.g. when upping volume during a phone
call. Now it only works if @Voice screen is visible.
* Updated translations

5/28/2016: v8.7.1* Fix for extracting article texts for many web sites
* Updated to v. 9.0.0 of Google Services library
* Removed option for network speech gen - a lot of trouble!
* Removed swipe off notification when not talking aloud - caused
problems on many devices. Use the stop button instead.
* Some changes in PDF text extraction that provided better
results in my test cases.
* Restored skip to the next article by long pressing the Next
button on a headset, for headsets that support long-press.
5/14/2016: v8.6.8* Fix for a crash on some devices (not my fault this
time, Google AppCompat library was faulty and they issued a fix)
* Fixed the notification and controls on Android Wear
smartwatches
* Fix for selecting folders and files in @Voice - the folder
hierarchy was not traversed above any folder where the app had
no read access.

5/12/2016: v8.6.6* Fixed media buttons handling (like Play/Pause buttons
on Bluetooth or wired headsets)
* If reading aloud is stopped, you may now dismiss @Voice
notification by swiping it out.
* Fix for extracting content from NY Times articles.
5/5/2016: v8.6.3v.8.6
* Added option to manually crop of PDF pages to exclude unwanted
text, e.g. page numbers, headers, footers, footnotes, sidebars
etc. - requires installation of @Voice PDF Crop Plugin
component.
* Added option to repeat sentences any number of times, turn on
under Settings - Speech settings, or long-press the "Repeat"
button at the bottom to get there quick.
* Option to use dark background and controls with any page
colors selected.
* Other small enhancements and fixes.

3/18/2016: v8.5.1
* Fix: Gizmodo articles were not loading
* Updated translations
3/16/2016: v8.5* Bonus feature for paid users: option to continue
recording sound to a file through all articles on the Reading
List or ebook chapters
* If you absolutely must replace our "ding" sound for the end of
article, upload a WAV sound file named ArticleEnd.wav, to the
.config (hidden) directory under the main directory of @Voice
app (by default: /sdcard/Hyperionics/atVoice)
* Fix: renaming the reading list would not work
* Other small bug fixes
2/17/2016: v8.4* Open directly MOBI/PRC/AZW/AZW3 files, provided they
are free from DRM protection (unencrypted)
* Bug fixes
2/17/2016: v8.3* New functions under Reading List menu: "Remove
finished articles" and "Delete duplicates"
* Improvements in text import from PDFs, where characters are
composed from separate components, like basic letter plus
diacritic.
* Bug fixes

1/30/2016: v 8.1* Select encoding of the current text, if it comes
scrambled (under "Reload or clear" - "Encoding")
* Will now open FB2 ebooks from .zip files (previously only from
.fb2 or .fb2.zip)
* Several bug fixes

12/8/2015: v 7.9.7* Another sharing fix - from Google Chrome or
Flipboard, if @Voice was not running in the background, one had
to press "Share" twice to work.
12/6/2015: v 7.9.6* Correct issue with sharing articles from the new
version of Flipboard.

12/2/2015: v 7.9.5* Work around for some web pages blocking content with
a message about AdBlock, even if AdBlock is not installed on
device.
* Fix again crash on Samsung devices with Android 4.2.2
* Fixing issues with adding to list web links redirecting to PDF
or other type files.
* Additional options to improve text import from PDF files.
* The options screen for above is displayed each time you open a
PDF by default.
* Better text formatting in some special PDF cases.

11/13/2015: v 7.8.3* Upon several users request, added option to turn off
automatic scroll to the currently read sentence (Settings -
Screen and sleep timer...)
* More bugs fixes

11/9/2015: v 7.8.1* Faster horizontal scrolling mode - pinch to zoom out,
then scroll quickly through all the pages with swipe gestures or
the slider at the bottom. Or quickly swipe pages 3 times to
switch to this mode. Tap any page to go back to normal reading.
* Added option to remember permanently the sleep timer setting.
* Bug fixes

10/28/2015: v 7.7.0
* Fixing permissions issue on Android 6
* Prepared to work with our upcoming @Voice Android Auto Plugin
- update, the Plugin is not coming soon, we have it ready, but
Google says it violates their "Android Auto Apps Policy", which
only permits media playing apps (generating sound from text with
TTS technology, according to them, is not a media app), or apps
that read aloud SMSes...
10/15/2015: v 7.6.10* More bug fixes, including a crash upon sharing text
to @Voice under Android 6.0
10/12/2015: v 7.6.6* Fix crash when opening some PDF files
* Setting up WiFi lock when using network speech generation, to
prevent WiFi from sleeping
* Other rare crashes fixed
* Fix for edits being lost when pressing Back button on Edit
Speech screen

v. 7.4 8/1/2015* Bookmark feature added. Long-press any word to show
the "Reference" toolbar, then press the bookmark icon. To go to
previously added bookmarks, use "Bookmarks" item on the menu.
* Next/previous buttons in notification and lock screen jump to
next/previous article on list, when speech stopped.
* PDF text import code modified to avoid running out of memory
on huge PDF files. It's slightly slower than before though.
v. 7.3 7/11/2015* When saving web pages for reading/listening later,
will now save simplified HTML with relevant text already
extracted, to load saved files faster.
* Added interface to Dictan dictionaries to the reference
toolbar (after a long-press on a word)
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.
v. 7.2 6/4/2015* Added "Share" function to the menu
* Extracted more functions to the toolbar on top, making them
available with one click.
* Extracting text from PDFs tries to remove page headers and
footers, page numbers, and combine paragraphs across pages
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
v. 7.1 5/15/2015* New look, more conforming to "Material Design"
* New interactive tutorial offered automatically on the first
use
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements

v. 6.9.1 4/8/2015
* On Android 4.4 and 5 - much faster loading of web
pages and ePub chapters
* New, gentler "Day" color theme, old black&white also available
* Fix for duplicating articles when syncing with Pocket
* Fix for not highlighting or not reading some sentences on
messy HTML pages
* Updated German translations – thank you, Peter!
* Many more bug fixes and performance improvements
v. 6.8.1 3/6/2015* Fix: export and import of speech editing files did
not work
* Sentences were not split correctly if the source contained
&nbsp; character after sentence terminating characters.
v. 6.8.0 3/4/2015* New feature: press the center of reading area to
switch between full screen and normal reading mode. Can be
disabled under Settings
* Updated translations
* Several bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 6.6.12 2/9/2015* Fix: was crashing on extracting text from some PDF
files.

v. 6.6.11 2/4/2015* Fix: should no longer stop speech, when non-audio
Bluetooth devices (e.g. FitBit) periodically connect and
disconnect.
v. 6.6.10 2/2/2015* Some web pages that previously loaded very slowly,
now load much faster.
* Added "Show all files" option to the menu on "Open" and "Save"
screens, to view a list of all files in the folder, even if they
don't have officially supported extensions.
v. 6.6.9 1/31/2015* Fix: was sometimes losing position within an ebook
chapter, maybe on other contents too.
* Fix: clear contents did not work right and came back with
previously opened text.
v. 6.6.8 1/29/2015* Reverted to older version of Google Services and their
appcompat components. The new versions crash our app on some
older devices when Google
ads are running.
* Even less CPU/battery consumption when Google Ads are running
and screen off or @Voice app is in background.
* Fixed bug with Dropbox sync, which caused loss of current
position in articles and eBooks. Also continuous sync with
Dropbox did not work correctly, removed this option - manual on
demand sync only for now.
* Fixed: in PDF files, some method of making words bold resulted
in repeated words in @Voice.
* Improved text extraction from several popular web sites and
news sources.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

v. 6.6 12/27/2014* Upon requests from many users, added "Record sound
file" function to the menu. Records uncompressed WAV files, or
compressed OGG with different quality settings. Currently
records one article or one chapter of an ebook at a time.
* Added warning about using the current IVONA voices on Android
5 Lollipop, as they have a bug and don't work on Lollipop.
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 6.5 11/26/2014* Experimental EPUB format support. It's only for
reading aloud, no fancy full featured EPUB reader, e.g. does not
show pictures, many more features of a full reader are missing.
* Double-click on a headset pause/resume button will back-up one
sentence, but only if your device is not programmed to handle
such double-clicks by the system to do something else.
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 6.4.8 11/2/2014* Added missing textual descriptions to the status bar
notification buttons (important for visually impaired users)
v. 6.4.6 10/31/2014
* Fix a rare crash in extracting text from PDF files
* Fix progress bar at the bottom to show correct article title
or file name
* "Preserve styles" for web pages should work better, use more
of the page defined styles
* Several other small bug fixes.
v. 6.4.5, 2014.10.20* Fix: repeat current article option did not work, if
the article was not on the reading list.
* Revert to older Google build tools, update to API 21 was a
disaster.
v. 6.4.4, 2014.10.18
* Changed how STOP button operates by default: if the app was
talking, first STOP press just stops speech. Second exits the
app.
* Fixing issue of unintended speech start, when paused but
@Voice app is still on top, and phone unlocked or similar
situation.
* Added Chinese Traditional translation.

v. 6.4.1, 2014.10.08* Added "pause definitely after each sentence" option
to speech settings - useful e.g. if you want to repeat sentences
when learning a new language.
* On orientation change to to landscape, the control panel at
the bottom is now auto-collapsed - else you can see very little
or none text at all.
* A few rare crash fixes.
v. 6.3.3, 2014.10.01* Fix: share to read at once or add to list would
sometimes fail, when shared from Downloads app or some file
managers
* Several other rare occurring bug fixes.
v. 6.3.2, 2014.09.23* Small fix: using "Add to list" share icon will not
affect the article last opened in the app.
* A correction to PDF text extraction code - trying to fix a
rare crash on some PDF files. If you have a PDF file that
crashes @Voice app, please email me that file, so that I could
fix it for sure.
v. 6.3.1, 2014.09.20
* Headset buttons: next/previous will go to next/previous list
article, if speech is paused. Otherwise as before, go to
next/previous sentence.
* Long press on next/previous navigation buttons at the bottom
goes to next/previous article from the list.
* Updated Bulgarian, French, Polish, Russian and Spanish
translations.
v. 6.3.0, 2014.09.17* Options to start reading in the background after
using "Share" icons.
* Reading list screen changed to dark background, to avoid
blinding users who use "night theme" in the dark.
* Many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 6.2.5, 2014.09.11* Corrections to the handling of "start reading in
background" option.

v. 6.2.3, 2014.09.09* Added some "language replacement" code, for
situations when e.g. "Norwegian Bokmål" language is recognized
in an article, but installed voice says it's just "Norwegian",
without specifying anything else. Now the program knows to use
"Norwegian" generic, if Bokmål variant is not avilable. These
replacements can be also specified with an external config file
if other such needs emerge in the future.
v. 6.2.2, 2014.09.06* Added option to start reading aloud in the background
after using Share - @Voice Add to List in another app.

v. 6.2, 2014.08.27
* Improved "Page look" function on the menu - shows preview of a
page, and allows changing font size.
* Added code to prevent the reading place loss if program or the
device crashes.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

v. 6.0, 2014.07.23* Now extracts and reads aloud text from Word
documents (doc, docx, rtf) and OpenOffice (odt)
* Better essential text extraction from HTML pages. Minimally
slower than the old method, but more accurate. The old method is
still available as option.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

v. 5.1.0, 2014.04.28
* Status bar added at the bottom of the article area. Can be
turned off under Settings, or by long press on the bar. Shows
title, progress, and sleep timer, if enabled.
* New option in "Speech and screen settings" to "Keep screen on
when reading"
* Fix: if continues Dropbox sync was enabled, could skip or
repeat articles from the reading list.

v. 4.6.0, 2014-03-04* Fixing a problem with opening attachments from Gmail or similar
situations
* Fixing an occasional crash when trying to open a PDF file.

v. 4.4.3, 2014-01-28* Now will open or add to list also PDF files from http links, and
better format TXT files from such links.
* Fixes for Share - Add to list sometimes not working as expected.

v. 4.4.2* Using Share/Add to @Voice List will no longer interrupt reading of
current article
* Fixed highlight and voice getting out of sync sometimes

v. 4.4.1, 2014-01-28* Using Share/Add to @Voice List will no longer interrupt reading of
current article
* Fixed highlight and voice getting out of sync sometimes

v. 4.4.0, 2014-01-24* New settings, under "Text, Icons and Reading List" section: "For
plane text, separate lines by default" and "For HTML, load full content by
default".
* The same settings can be switched for individual articles or files under menu
- "Reload or clear...". Change the options there if you don't like the way a
plane text or HTML article is displayed.
* Bluetooth device feature is now optional, which will make the app available to
about 500 more devices on Google Play.

v. 4.3.1, 2014-01-16* It is now possible to reload an article from a web browser, for
entering passwords etc. See menu - "Reload or clear" - "Load from browser"
* Fix crash on Android 2.x when pasting text.

v. 4.1.7* Fix: sentence highlighting would stop if screen turned off, then on
again while the program is talking.
v. 4.1.6 Fixes:* Small change to let FBReader TTS+ Plugin to use speech replacement
created in @Voice, or import them from TTS+ to @Voice (under Settings menu)

* Added "Edit speech" feature under Settings menu, to
change pronunciation of some words, delete unwanted fragments of sentences
(using RegEx) and more.
* Added "Clear contents" function to the menu, to clear the current text from
@Voice screen.
* If HTML page declares text encoding different from auto-detected, we let you
switch between the two from the menu, to display text correctly.
* Made the APK file to download smaller.
* Many smaller new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Version 3.4.0 - 2013-10.18

* Added "fast scroll" feature - a blue circular button on
right, that appears if you touch screen and move it up or down, then fades out
if not needed. Touch and slide up/down to scroll fast to any part of the
document.
* Fixed issue with PDF files sometimes losing position (bookmark)
* PDF files can be now added to reading list.
* Fixed issue with Dropbox leaving incomplete (damaged) files if connection was
broken while downloading.

Version 3.3.2 - 2013-10.12

* Showing progress bars under article titles in the
Reading List, to show how much was read.
* Fixing bug in extracting text from big PDF files
* Layout improvement for high resolution screens
* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 3.2.3 - 2013.09.28

* Improved search interface, e.g. ending search with
"Play" button starts playing from the currently found place.
* Better - sharper and flat - buttons in the bottom row

Version 3.2.1 - 2013.09.26

* Added Search function to the top bar of @Voice
* On Android 2.x implemented the same "Action Bar" and menu as on Android 4.x
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 3.1.0 - 2013.09.24

* Sending PDF files from Adobe Reader through "Share"
function to @Voice now works.
* Pressing "Next" sentence when at the end, or "Previous" when at start, now
loads a next or previous article from the list, or provides spoken feedback.

* Loads very long text files in segments to avoid running
out of memory
* Fixes for some encoding errors
* Long press now also highlights the sentence to start speed from that point, in
addition to starting text selection. This makes possible selecting a sentence to
start reading from when TalkBack is enabled.
* Performance improvements, including armeabi-v7a native code
* Several bug fixes

Version 2.6.1 - 2013.06.21

* Correcting problem with listing all voices (countries
and speaker names were not displayed)
* Added character encoding recognition when loading text files. Should now
display correct characters even if text is not in UTF-8 format.

* Added option to read aloud at once text copied to
clipboard
* Redesigned Settings for more streamlined use
* Added notification to Android notification bar, with the title of currently
played article. On Android v.3 and higher it also has progress bar, buttons to
start/stop, skip sentences and turn on/off the option to speak clipboard aloud.
* Asking how to handle Stop button on its first use

Version 2.1.0 - 2013.04.27

* Dropbox login was broken if new Dropbox app installed.
This release fixes the problem.

Version 2.0.9 - 201.04.22

* Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 2.0.7 - 2013.03.29

* More crashes and no-reponses fixed. Thank you for
sending the bug reports!

Version 2.0.5 - 2013.03.27

* Several bug fixes again.

Version 2.0.3 - 2013.03.24

* Fixed crash when pressing Help button on some devices
* Fixed English pronunciation of words ending with ST and a dot.
* Paste button or menu item now appears even if you copy text as short as 1
character.
* Auto-start speech when headset connection option now also works when Bluetooth
headset is connected.
* Fixed an issue with reader not always remembering the text position after
return form another screen
* Fixed occasional crash in Dropbox sync

Version 2.0.1 - 2013.03.21

* Zoom controls added to enlarge text as needed. Can be
disabled under Settings.
* Now remembers the scroll position for each article
* Many bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 1.9.1 - 2013.03.12

* Bookmarks improved - now remembers exact position for
all saved articles read, plus remembers how to load the contents (all or
"essential")

Version 1.9.0 - 2013.03.11

* Auto-bookmarks the last read article, and restores it
and the last read sentence when the app is stopped and re-started later. This
also synchronizes through Dropbox, if you use this feature.

Version 1.8.8 - 2013.03.10

* Corrected a problem with ads sometimes showing even
after buying and installing the "@Voice No Ads Upgrade". Sorry about that!

Version 1.8.7 - 2013.03.09

* Fixed another crash

Version 1.8.6 - 2013.03.02

* Fixed a rare crash on Android v.3 and higher

Version 1.8.5 - 2013.02.25

* Added French translation

Version 1.8.4 - 2013.02.20

* Added German translation

Version 1.8.3 - 2013.02.18

* Bug fixes and performance improvements
* Added Russian translation

Version 1.8.1 - 2013.02.10

* Small bug fixes.

Version 1.8.0 - 2013.02.06

* Option to move @Voice folder to another location, e.g.
external SD card, if needed.
* Dropbox sync now has option to be on demand (when you click the menu to sync
only) or continuous.
* Option to not exit the app when the on-screen STOP button is pressed, just
stop speech and reset position to the top of article.

Version 1.7.1 - 2013.01.31

Version 1.7.0 - 2013.01.30

* Dropbox sync! Enable, then build your list on one
device, e.g. a tablet, then listen on your phone. Or from your computer, use
File/Save As - "HTML only" function in the browser, save to @Voice Dropbox
folder, then listen on your phone.

* Several bug fixes, including a crash on some long
articles from RADIO SVOBODA.

Version 1.6.5 - 2013.01.15

* Improved contents extraction from Twitter tweets.

Version 1.6.4 - 2013.01.12

* Updated video tutorials in Help

Version 1.6.2 - 2013.01.09

Version 1.6.2 - 2013.01.09

* Android package name changed to com.hyperionics.avar -
will uninstall the older version upon first run, but preserve any saved articles
and reading lists.
* Performance improvements and bug fixes
* Ready for an optional purchase of No Ads Upgrade from Google Play Store

Version 1.5.1 - 2012.12.18

* Corrected issue with voice change when starting to read
the next article from list.